The Last Guardian is on Hiatus (Update: In "Active Development")

Kevin Chieng
June 11, 2013 at 1:45PM

Jack Tretton, president of SCEA, appeared on GT's E3 All Access Live today and was asked by Geoff Keighley about the status of Team Ico's The Last Guardian. The answer Jack Tretton gave may not be the answer that you were hoping.

"The cool thing about our world wide development studios is that we got so many projects out there from so many great teams," Jack Tretton says. "Projects never ultimately go away. The Last Guardian is certainly not going away, but it's on hiatus right now."

I don't think we should expect The Last Guardian any time soon, though I know many of us, including myself, keep hoping at each E3 that the game would finally appear on stage with a release date.

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Update: Shuhei Yoshida, presdent of worldwide studios for Sony, has weighed in on the status of The Last Guardian. And good news, the game is still in "active development." Here's what Yoshida had to say, speaking to Kotaku.

"That hiatus term—I’m not a native English-speaking person—but that’s misleading," Shuhei Yoshida told Stephen Totilo from Kotaku. "The game is in active development. [Lead designer Fumito] Ueda-san shared updates a few months ago. Nothing has changed. My answer is, 'Yes, the game is in active development.' It’s not hiatus at all. But we are not ready to reintroduce it. When we are ready, we will do that. Please wait."